Swiss biologist Alex Gamma, PhD. has published a paper in PLOS ONE about “pure awareness” experiences in meditators & Martin Lindner reports about it in the NZZ in Zurich

Last Updated on April 29, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

Alex Gamma. PhD.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alex-Gamma

  • Trained biologist
  • Neuroscience of drug-induced altered states of consciousness.
  • Neuroimaging,
  • EEG/ERP and subjective experience.
  • Applied statistics in psychiatric epidemiology and clinical psychiatry (ADHD).
  • Philosophy of science: theories of consciousness, evolutionary biology, neurodeterminism, behavioral genetics / heritability, personalized medicine.

Alex Gamma’s PLOS ONE paper about “pure awareness” experiences in meditators:

«The Minimal Phenomenal Experience questionnaire (MPE-92M): Towards a phenomenological profile of “pure awareness” experiences in meditators»

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=de&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=The+Minimal+Phenomenal+Experience+questionnaire+%28MPE-92M%29%3A+Towards+a+phenomenological+profile+of+%22pure+awareness%22+experiences+in+meditators&btnG=

Martin Lindner reports about the findings of the PLOS ONE paper in a NZZ Zurich article:

«Meditation: The ego experience fades while the mind is wide awake»

https://www.nzz.ch/wissenschaft/meditation-in-der-tiefen-leere-zeigt-sich-der-menschliche-geist-ld.1776922

Martin Lindner writes in the NZZ about Alex Gamma’s findings he published in PLOS ONE:

  • «Last year, Metzinger and neuropsychiatrist Alex Gamma in Zurich published the first online study of meditators worldwide in the journal “Plos One”.
  • The two researchers tried to record the presumed minimal consciousness in as much detail as possible using an extensive questionnaire.
  • Many of the remarkable answers can now be found in Metzinger’s book.»

Prof. Thomas Metzinger is last author of the PLOS ONE paper he published together with Alex Gamma:

  • Thomas Metzinger is full professor and director of the theoretical philosophy group and the research group on neuroethics/neurophilosophy at the department of philosophy, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany.

https://mind-foundation.org/team/prof-dr-thomas-metzinger